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HANDBOOK

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Email Handbook

Skype Handbook

Email instruction builds on your instructional expertise and your commitment to the Writing Center’s mission, and it will also push you to find new ways to recognize and address writers’ needs outside the swift give and take of verbal conversation.

​Developing these skills connects you to the growing possibilities of online instruction while also advancing the feedback expertise required of you as a teacher.

The goal of this handbook is to give you a research-grounded and experience-based approach to email instruction.

The pedagogical priorities of a Skype appointment are the same as any tutoring appointment.

​Just like all other kinds of appointments, this should be dialogic, collaborative process that draws on both your expertise as a tutor and writer and the student’s specialized knowledge of the content and context of the writing task.

However, there are some specific ways that the added technology of Skype and Google Docs influences how you can be an effective tutor through these modalities.